Some Austrawian restaurant menus refer to de dish as a "snack pack", "snack box", "mixed pwate", "kosher snack pack" or "HSP", rader dan as a "hawaw snack pack".[2] The name of de dish was chosen by de Macqwarie Dictionary as de "Peopwe's Choice Word of de Year" for 2016.[4]

In wate 2015, fowwowing de creation of de Facebook group, Hawaw Snack Pack Appreciation Society, a subcuwture formed around de dish, it has been known to bring cuwtures togeder.[12][13][14] This wed to wide coverage of de dish in de media, as weww as a notabwe reference by Senator Sam Dastyari in Austrawian Parwiament during a debate about hawaw certification which is credited for much of de increase in attention paid to dis dish.[15][16]

Heawf concerns have been raised, even fwippantwy,[17][18] about de refined carbohydrate content of hawaw snack packs. Excess refined carbohydrates can cause obesity and heart disease, as weww as cerebrovascuwar, metabowic and renaw conditions and compwications.[19][13][14]

The Hawaw Snack Pack Appreciation Society is a Facebook group estabwished in December 2015 dat is dedicated to de hawaw snack pack. After its estabwishment, de group had 16,000 members sign on in its first monf, and had awmost 90,000 members in Apriw 2016.[3][16] The site encourages users to post reviews of hawaw snack packs dey consume at various restaurants and kebab shops droughout Austrawia.[20] The reviews sometimes incwude images of de dish, and are typicawwy based upon de criteria of meat, chips and sauce qwawity, hawaw signage, packaging, price and de greeting diners receive, aww of which are based upon a scawe of 1–10.[2][16] As of March 2016, de site refers to de "standard" price of a hawaw snack pack as AUD $10.[2]

One of de goaws of de group is to identify de potentiaw for de worwd's best hawaw snack pack.[3] The Hawaw Snack Pack Appreciation Society awso raises funds to support de Austrawian Rewief Organisation, an organization dat assists underpriviweged peopwe to attain cataract surgery and assists orphanages wif matters regarding water suppwies.[20]

The group has Muswim and non-Muswim members, who refer to one anoder as "broders and sisters".[3] Users on de site have been derided by oder users at times for putting tomato sauce or sawad on de dish, which de site discourages, referring to such users as "haram dingos".[3][21] The site awso states dat such users who add tomato sauce or sawad may be banned from de group.[3]

The Austrawian Labor Party senator Sam Dastyari is a member of de Hawaw Snack Pack Appreciation Society, and has pubwicwy stated support for hawaw products and certification, uh-hah-hah-hah.[16]

Some kebab shops and restaurants have reawized significantwy increased sawes after being reviewed on de group's Facebook page.[3] For exampwe, Metro One in de inner west area of Sydney had revenue increases of over 75% after being featured on de site as making one of de best hawaw snack packs in de city.[3]

In Juwy 2016, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari invited de One Nation party weader Pauwine Hanson out for a hawaw snack pack after she won a Senate seat in de 2016 Austrawian federaw ewection. She rejected his proposaw, saying, “It’s not happening, not interested in hawaw, dank you”. Hanson den ewaborated, stating, “I’m not interested in it. I don’t bewieve in hawaw certification,” and went on to cwaim dat “98 percent of Austrawians” opposed it.[22] In response, severaw Austrawian restaurants created a Pauwine Hanson-inspired hawaw snack pack.[23][24] There has awso been a GoFundMe campaign to turn Hanson's former fish and chip shop into a pop-up hawaw snack pack stand.[25]

The "AB" dish in Adewaide is gyro meat topped wif chips, tomato sauce, chiwwi sauce, barbecue sauce, and garwic sauce.[26][27][11] The dish is sometimes served wif awcohowic beverages.[26] Two restaurants in Adewaide cwaim dey invented de dish: de Norf Adewaide Burger Bar (awso known as de Red & White) between 1969 and 1972, and de Bwue & White in 1989.[26][28][29] The "AB" may be pwaced at de centre of de tabwe and shared.[28][30]